Mark Teixeira hit his first home run of the year and the Yankees earned a split of the four-game series.

Granderson got two chances to tie the major league record of four homers in a game. In the sixth, he lined a single to right field. In the eighth, with much of the remaining crowd standing, he beat out a dribbler down the first-base line. He was then caught stealing.

Granderson homered to right-center in the first inning and hit a soaring, two-run shot into the second deck in right field in the second, both off Anthony Swarzak (0-3).

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In the fourth, Granderson hit a line drive to the short right-field porch against Jeff Gray and came out of the dugout for a curtain call. Granderson is the first player to hit three homers in a big league game this year.

He became the 12th major leaguer to hit three home runs in the first four innings of a game, according to STATS LLC and the SABR Home Run Log. The Cubs' Alfonso Soriano was the last to do it, on June 8, 2007, against the Braves.

The Yankees have had 28 three-homer games but only one of four homers, by Lou Gehrig in 1932.

Thursday's stars

Yu Darvish pitched two-hit ball into the seventh inning and Mike Napoli homered for the fourth straight game, leading the Rangers past the Tigers 10-3.

Evan Longoria went 3-for-4 and drove in four runs as the Rays finished a 10-game road trip with a 4-6 record after a 9-4 victory over the Blue Jays.

With two hits in the Marlins' 5-3 victory over the Cubs, Hanley Ramirez is hitting .550 (11-for-20) with three home runs and nine RBIs in his last five games.

Matt Kemp hit his seventh home run of the season as the Dodgers avoided a three-game sweep with a 4-3 victory over the Brewers.

Bronson Arroyo worked eight strong innings in the Reds' 6-3 victory over the Cardinals. Brandon Phillips, Ryan Ludwick and Drew Stubbs homered for Cincinnati, which had connected just once in its last nine games and began the day with a .211 team batting average.

Quotable

Bill "Spaceman" Lee lived up to his nickname when asked to describe Fenway Park before Friday's 100th anniversary celebration of the stadium's opening. "I've been around this park when it was just a vacant lot and it was under water," Lee said. "I used to hunt ducks here when I was in India and I had a canoe that used to come in here and park all the time and I dreamed that there would be a ballpark here."

Late show

The pitching was superb late Wednesday night on the West Coast.

Cliff Lee threw 10 scoreless innings and Matt Cain matched him for nine before the Giants beat the Phillies 1-0 in 11 innings at San Francisco.

Lee is the first pitcher to go 10 scoreless innings since the Cardinals' Mark Mulder beat the Astros 1-0 in a 10-inning game in 2005.

In Los Angeles, the Athletics' Bartolo Colon threw 38 consecutive strikes during one stretch of a 6-0 victory over the Angels. It's the longest run of strikes since the compiling of pitch-by-pitch data began in 1988. Of Colon's 108 pitches, 82 were strikes.